Aesop's Fables: Sir Roger L'Estrange (1692)
77. AN OLD WEAZLE AND MICE (Perry 511)
An old Weazle that was now almost past mousing, try’d what she could
do by her Wits, when she found she could live no longer upon the Square,
and so conveys her self into a Meal-Tub for the mice to come to her, since
she could not go to them. They came thick and threefold at a time, as
she expected they should, till at last one experienced Stager, that had
baffled twenty Traps and Tricks before, discover’d the Plot, and quite
spoil’d the Jest.
THE MORAL. The want of a Force, Strength, and other Abilities to compass
our Ends, must be supply’d by Industry and Invention.
 L'Estrange originally published his version of the fables in 1692. There is a
very nice illustrated edition in the Children's Classics series by Knopf: Sir
Roger L'Estrange. Aesop
- Fables which is available at amazon.com.
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